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Pastor's Points:
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday! Similar to Ascension Sunday, Trinity Sunday is a day where we honor and celebrate a mystery of our faith – the Holy Trinity.
We affirm it in our creeds, we sing about it in our hymns, we baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but what does it mean?
In a phrase, I don’t know. It’s a mystery.
I found these words from a retired UM pastor – who now spends his time providing worship resources for pastors – helpful and wise. And perhaps better than what I could write.
“The Trinity is an image of God as relationship. And it’s also an image of God as unity. Even though there seem to be three persons, they are One. And we’re part of that One. “I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you” (Jn. 14.20). And it’s an image of God as energy. With God one plus one equals three, because you also count the “plus.” God is the “proceeding” of Son from Father, and Spirit from both of them. (There’s a big controversy about whether the Spirit proceeds “from the Father” or “from the father and the Son.” The very nature of the Trinity is that they can’t be separated or distinguished. The Spirit proceeds from their relationship.)
The Trinity is not a static organizational chart but an electric field, a living process, a loving flow, a divine dance. The Greek word for it is perichoresis (from peri, which means “around,” and chorein, which means “to give way” or “to make room”). The Trinity is God’s dancing-to-make-room-for-the-other.” (Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Unfolding Light)
Join us for breakfast in Kobler at 8:45 (bring a dish to share or just show up!), then we’ll worship together in a combined 5th Sunday service at 10 in Kobler, where we’ll also celebrate our graduates!
Wear your regalia if you have it!
See you Sunday!
Pastor Emilee
REMINDER: With this being the 5th Sunday, our one service at 10 am will be in Kobler Hall. The following Sunday, June 7th, we will move semi-permanently to Kobler Hall for ALL services until the A/C is fixed.
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